“Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the ...” — Lionel Shriver Quote

Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.

In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes.

Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.

I was an awkward kid.

I feel like a lot of creative people are socially awkward.

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.